At WonderCon in March, The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Webb, and asked him how much of an influence Sam Raimi’s trilogy about the web-slinger had on his own version, which opens in theaters in July.

“It’s a totally independent universe, and we make different assumptions about certain parts of the character without subverting the iconography of Spider-Man,” he told THR. “There are certain obligations we have - like he wears a suit and he gets bitten by a spider - but the context surrounding that is new and different and set off by an event that happens years before. And it's a new story in that sense.”